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Mors (mythology)
In ancient Roman myth and literature, Mors (also known as Letus〔''Handbook of Latin Synonymes'' by Ludwig von Doderlein, pg. 142〕) is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thánatos. The Latin noun for "death", ''mors'', genitive ''mortis'', is of feminine gender, but ancient Roman art is not known to depict Death as a woman.〔Karl Siegfried Guthke, ''The Gender of Death: A Cultural History in Art and Literature'' (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 24 ''et passim''.〕 Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the word.〔Diana Burton, "The Gender of Death," in ''Personification in the Greek World'' (Ashgate, 2005), pp. 57–58.〕 Horace writes of ''pallida Mors'', "pale Death," who kicks her way into the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings equally.〔Horace, ''Carmina'' 1.4.14–15.〕 Seneca, for whom Mors is also pale, describes her "eager teeth."〔''Avidis … dentibus'': Seneca, ''Hercules Furens'' 555.〕 Tibullus pictures Mors as black or dark.〔Tibullus 1.3.3.〕
Mors is often represented allegorically in later Western literature and art, particularly during the Middle Ages. Depictions of the Crucifixion of Christ sometimes show Mors standing at the foot of the cross.〔Guthke, ''The Gender of Death'', pp. 24, 41, ''et passim''.〕 Mors' antithesis is personified as Vita, "Life."〔Guthke, ''The Gender of Death'', pp. 45–46.〕
==Genealogy==
Mors is the offspring of Nox (Night), and sibling to the personification of sleep, Somnus.
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